Saturday, December 22, 2012

As I mentioned before, during this shoot with George I experimented with some odd lighting arrangements. This image is an example. Uplighting is typically used for Halloween and isn't particularly attractive, but when you have a physique like George, uplighting only serves to highlight the musculature.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

I think this shoot predates the term "cosplay", the act of dressing oneself in costume like super-heroes. It certainly predates the current reboot of Superman that makes much of his early days wearing only a Superman logo t-shirt and jeans.

I dressed George in both a Superman t-shirt and a Batman t-shirt because he not only looked both parts in terms of his physique, but also his face.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

When you work with fitness models it's sometimes difficult to get them to position themselves in anything less than a well-balanced stance with good posture. I don't really remember how I set up this scene with Andrei years ago, but it's a good bet that I had to coax him to put his feet on the table and lean on the back two legs of the chair.

Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Popularity is an odd thing. Case in point the image I have titled Quadruplets. I created the image from four separate shots of the same model and posted it to my blog last year. At the time it drew no particular reaction, even though the model, Alexander Westphalen is one of the favorites posted in this blog based on page views.

Suddenly in the last few weeks someone has discovered the post, perhaps from a web search on Alex's name, and the image has skyrocketed to the most popular image on the site.

I like the image, too, but if any of the image's many fans care to tell me why they like it so much, I'd love to hear.

Most models have a strong suit: their face, their arms, their legs, their shoulders. Jonathan's strongest and most unique body part was is abs. It wasn't just that he had great abs; he had freaky muscle control of the lower half of his abs. He had the ability to flex and hold the lower center of his abs in so much they were concave!